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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY colord-download-http "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/releases/colord-&colord-version;.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY colord-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY colord-md5sum "7dbdc807495890c13e8242385f4c641f">
10 <!ENTITY colord-size "1.8 MB">
11 <!ENTITY colord-buildsize "32 MB (with tests)">
12 <!ENTITY colord-time "0.3 SBU (with tests)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="colord" xreflabel="colord-&colord-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="colord.html"?>
17
18
19 <title>Colord-&colord-version;</title>
20
21 <indexterm zone="colord">
22 <primary sortas="a-colord">Colord</primary>
23 </indexterm>
24
25 <sect2 role="package">
26 <title>Introduction to Colord</title>
27
28 <para>
29 <application>Colord</application> is a system service that makes it easy
30 to manage, install, and generate color profiles. It is used mainly by
31 <application>GNOME Color Manager</application> for system integration
32 and use when no users are logged in.
33 </para>
34
35 &lfs112_checked;
36
37 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
38 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
39 <listitem>
40 <para>
41 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&colord-download-http;"/>
42 </para>
43 </listitem>
44 <listitem>
45 <para>
46 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&colord-download-ftp;"/>
47 </para>
48 </listitem>
49 <listitem>
50 <para>
51 Download MD5 sum: &colord-md5sum;
52 </para>
53 </listitem>
54 <listitem>
55 <para>
56 Download size: &colord-size;
57 </para>
58 </listitem>
59 <listitem>
60 <para>
61 Estimated disk space required: &colord-buildsize;
62 </para>
63 </listitem>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>
66 Estimated build time: &colord-time;
67 </para>
68 </listitem>
69 </itemizedlist>
70
71 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Colord Dependencies</bridgehead>
72
73 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
74 <para role="required">
75 <xref linkend="dbus"/>,
76 <xref linkend="glib2"/>,
77 <xref linkend="lcms2"/>,
78 <xref linkend="polkit"/>, and
79 <!-- Polkit now needed, see #11481 in Trac -->
80 <xref linkend="sqlite"/>
81 </para>
82
83 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
84 <para role="recommended">
85 <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>,
86 <xref linkend="libgudev"/>,
87 <xref linkend="libgusb"/>,
88 <phrase revision="sysv">and</phrase>
89 <phrase revision="systemd"><xref linkend="systemd"/>, and</phrase>
90 <xref linkend="vala"/>
91 </para>
92
93 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
94 <para role="optional">
95 <xref linkend="gnome-desktop"/> and
96 <xref linkend="colord-gtk"/> (to build the example tools),
97 <xref linkend="docbook-utils"/>,
98 <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
99 <xref linkend="libxslt"/>,
100 <xref linkend="sane"/>,
101 <ulink url="https://www.argyllcms.com/">ArgyllCMS</ulink>, and
102 <ulink url="https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/">Bash Completion</ulink>
103 </para>
104
105 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
106 User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/colord"/>
107 </para>
108 </sect2>
109
110 <sect2 role="installation">
111 <title>Installation of Colord</title>
112
113 <para>
114 There should be a dedicated user and group to take control of the colord
115 daemon after it has started. Issue the following commands as the
116 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
117 </para>
118
119<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 71 colord &amp;&amp;
120useradd -c "Color Daemon Owner" -d /var/lib/colord -u 71 \
121 -g colord -s /bin/false colord</userinput></screen>
122
123 <para>
124 Install <application>Colord</application> by running the following
125 commands:
126 </para>
127
128<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
129cd build &amp;&amp;
130
131meson --prefix=/usr \
132 --buildtype=release \
133 -Ddaemon_user=colord \
134 -Dvapi=true \
135 -Dsystemd=false \
136 -Dlibcolordcompat=true \
137 -Dargyllcms_sensor=false \
138 -Dbash_completion=false \
139 -Ddocs=false \
140 -Dman=false .. &amp;&amp;
141ninja</userinput></screen>
142
143<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
144cd build &amp;&amp;
145
146meson --prefix=/usr \
147 --buildtype=release \
148 -Ddaemon_user=colord \
149 -Dvapi=true \
150 -Dsystemd=true \
151 -Dlibcolordcompat=true \
152 -Dargyllcms_sensor=false \
153 -Dbash_completion=false \
154 -Ddocs=false \
155 -Dman=false .. &amp;&amp;
156ninja</userinput></screen>
157
158 <para>
159 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
160 </para>
161
162<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
163
164 <para>
165 To test the results, issue: <command>ninja test</command>.
166 One test, <filename>colord-self-test-daemon</filename>, will fail if the
167 package is already installed. The test suite must be run with the
168 system-wide D-Bus Daemon running.
169 </para>
170
171 </sect2>
172
173 <sect2 role="commands">
174 <title>Command Explanations</title>
175
176 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
177 href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>
178
179 <para>
180 <parameter>-Ddaemon_user=colord</parameter>: This switch is used
181 so the colord daemon will run as an unprivileged user instead of the
182 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user.
183 </para>
184
185 <para>
186 <parameter>-Dvapi=true</parameter>: This switch enables building
187 the <application>Vala</application> bindings. Remove if you don't have
188 <xref linkend="vala"/> installed.
189 </para>
190
191 <para revision="sysv">
192 <parameter>-Dsystemd=false</parameter>: This switch disables
193 support for <application>systemd</application> login in Colord
194 applications.
195 </para>
196
197 <para revision="systemd">
198 <parameter>-Dsystemd=true</parameter>: This switch enables
199 installation of the <application>systemd</application> service.
200 </para>
201
202 <para>
203 <parameter>-Dlibcolordcompat=true</parameter>: This switch enables
204 building a compatibility library for older packages that use
205 <application>Colord</application>.
206 </para>
207
208 <para>
209 <parameter>-Dargyllcms_sensor=false</parameter>: This switch
210 disables the ArgLLCMS sensor driver. Omit if you have
211 <ulink url="https://www.argyllcms.com/">ArgyllCMS</ulink> installed
212 and wish to use it.
213 </para>
214
215 <para>
216 <parameter>-Dbash_completion=false</parameter>: This switch
217 disables Bash Completion support for Colord applications.
218 </para>
219
220 <para>
221 <parameter>-Ddocs=false</parameter>: This switch disables building
222 of documentation. Omit if you have <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> available.
223 </para>
224
225 <para>
226 <parameter>-Dman=false</parameter>: This switch disables building
227 of man pages. Omit if you have <xref linkend="docbook-utils"/>
228 available. Namespaced versions of the docbook-xsl stylesheets
229 are also required.
230 </para>
231
232 </sect2>
233
234 <sect2 role="content">
235 <title>Contents</title>
236
237 <segmentedlist>
238 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
239 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
240 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
241
242 <seglistitem>
243 <seg>
244 cd-create-profile,
245 cd-fix-profile,
246 cd-iccdump,
247 cd-it8, and
248 colormgr
249 </seg>
250 <seg>
251 libcolord.so,
252 libcolordcompat.so,
253 libcolordprivate.so, and
254 libcolorhug.so
255 </seg>
256 <seg>
257 /usr/include/colord-1,
258 /usr/lib/colord-{plugins,sensors},
259 /usr/share/color{d},
260 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/colord, and
261 /var/lib/colord
262 </seg>
263 </seglistitem>
264 </segmentedlist>
265
266 <variablelist>
267 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
268 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
269 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
270
271 <!-- If the program or library name conflicts (is the same) as the
272 package name, add -prog or -lib to the varlistentry entity id
273 and the 2nd entry of the indexterm zone entity -->
274
275 <varlistentry id="cd-create-profile">
276 <term><command>cd-create-profile</command></term>
277 <listitem>
278 <para>
279 is the Color Manager Profile Creation Tool
280 </para>
281 <indexterm zone="colord cd-create-profile">
282 <primary sortas="b-cd-create-profile">cd-create-profile</primary>
283 </indexterm>
284 </listitem>
285 </varlistentry>
286
287 <varlistentry id="cd-fix-profile">
288 <term><command>cd-fix-profile</command></term>
289 <listitem>
290 <para>
291 is a tool used to fix metadata in ICC profiles
292 </para>
293 <indexterm zone="colord cd-fix-profile">
294 <primary sortas="b-cd-fix-profile">cd-fix-profile</primary>
295 </indexterm>
296 </listitem>
297 </varlistentry>
298
299 <varlistentry id="cd-iccdump">
300 <term><command>cd-iccdump</command></term>
301 <listitem>
302 <para>
303 dumps the contents of an ICC profile as human readable text
304 </para>
305 <indexterm zone="colord cd-iccdump">
306 <primary sortas="b-cd-iccdump">cd-iccdump</primary>
307 </indexterm>
308 </listitem>
309 </varlistentry>
310
311 <varlistentry id="cd-it8">
312 <term><command>cd-it8</command></term>
313 <listitem>
314 <para>
315 is the Color Manager Testing Tool
316 </para>
317 <indexterm zone="colord cd-it8">
318 <primary sortas="b-cd-it8">cd-it8</primary>
319 </indexterm>
320 </listitem>
321 </varlistentry>
322
323 <varlistentry id="colormgr">
324 <term><command>colormgr</command></term>
325 <listitem>
326 <para>
327 is a text-mode program that allows you to interact with colord on
328 the command line
329 </para>
330 <indexterm zone="colord colormgr">
331 <primary sortas="b-colormgr">colormgr</primary>
332 </indexterm>
333 </listitem>
334 </varlistentry>
335
336 <varlistentry id="libcolord.so">
337 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcolord.so</filename></term>
338 <listitem>
339 <para>
340 contains the <application>Colord</application> API functions
341 </para>
342 <indexterm zone="colord libcolord.so">
343 <primary sortas="c-libcolord.so">libcolord.so</primary>
344 </indexterm>
345 </listitem>
346 </varlistentry>
347
348 <varlistentry id="libcolordcompat.so">
349 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcolordcompat.so</filename></term>
350 <listitem>
351 <para>
352 contains legacy API functions for compatibility with older
353 applications
354 </para>
355 <indexterm zone="colord libcolordcompat.so">
356 <primary sortas="c-libcolordcompat.so">libcolordcompat.so</primary>
357 </indexterm>
358 </listitem>
359 </varlistentry>
360
361 <varlistentry id="libcolordprivate.so">
362 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcolordprivate.so</filename></term>
363 <listitem>
364 <para>
365 contains internal API functions for the programs included with
366 <application>Colord</application>
367 </para>
368 <indexterm zone="colord libcolordprivate.so">
369 <primary sortas="c-libcolordprivate.so">libcolordprivate.so</primary>
370 </indexterm>
371 </listitem>
372 </varlistentry>
373
374 <varlistentry id="libcolorhug.so">
375 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcolorhug.so</filename></term>
376 <listitem>
377 <para>
378 contains a simple display hardware colorimiter
379 </para>
380 <indexterm zone="colord libcolorhug.so">
381 <primary sortas="c-libcolorhug.so">libcolorhug.so</primary>
382 </indexterm>
383 </listitem>
384 </varlistentry>
385 </variablelist>
386 </sect2>
387
388</sect1>
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